overglance
English
Verb
overglance (third-person singular simple present overglances, present participle overglancing, simple past and past participle overglanced)
- (poetic, transitive) To glance over.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- with a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overglance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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